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121 " Veba and Sanja got marrried in the summer of 1993. They signed the papers at the municipal government building—Zrinka was the maid of honor—and ran under sniper fire to a taxi, which drove them down Sniper Alley at incredible speed to the Holiday Inn, where they had a drink (Zrinka's treat) in lieu of a wedding reception. A passing French journalist was so astonished at Sarajevans still getting married that he gave them a bottle of wine. "Have a good life!" he wrote on it. "
― Aleksandar Hemon , The Book of My Lives
122 " Only once did she say: “I love the way you think without thinking, "
― Aleksandar Hemon , The Making of Zombie Wars
123 " Chief Shippy stands frozen, holding his breath, exhaling with relief as the young man dies, the gun smoke slowly moving across the room, like a school of fish. "
― Aleksandar Hemon , The Lazarus Project
124 " And the world around me was nothing if not an infinity of distractions: cute girls, novels and comic books, my budding record collection, neighborhood boys whistling from the playground under my window, beckoning me to a soccer game. "
125 " Perhaps if they all remained silent for as long as possible, they’d slip out of this moment into the next one, and then the next one, until all the preceding moments were erased from memory and everything could start all over again. The ultimate American dream: the eternal present, where nothing has ever happened before what is happening now. "
126 " You have to be taught to recognize and care about differences, you have to be instructed who you really are; you have to learn how generations of dead people and their incomprehensible accomplishments made you the way you are; you have to define your loyalty to an abstraction-based herd that transcends your individuality. "
127 " El hogar es allí donde tu ausencia no pasa desapercibida "
― Aleksandar Hemon
128 " Citeam toată noaptea, toată ziua, în loc să-mi fac temele; la școală citeam pe sub bancă[...]. Mă simțeam confortabil și sigur doar in spațiul imaginar al literarurii: fără un tată absent, fără o mama deprimată, fără bătăușii care mă puneau să ling paginile cărții până când limba mi se înnegrea de la cerneală. "
― Aleksandar Hemon , Love and Obstacles
129 " La 16 ani investeam o gramadă de energie să-mi afișez plictiseala: îmi dădeam ochii peste cap, răspundeam lapidar la întrebările părinților, rămâneam impasibil la poveștile de viață pe care le împărtășeau. Îmi construisem o armura de fier care îmi permitea să evadez, să citesc și să mă întorc în propria-mi celulă fără ca nimeni să observe. "
130 " M-am îngrozit gândindu-mă cum trebuie să i se fi părut toate astea - această masă, acest apartament, această familie, ce înțelegea din existența noastră mică, înghesuită, din felurile noastre de mâncare simple, făcute pentru oameni veșnic înfometați, din pierderea care licărea în tot ceea ce făceam sau nu făceam. "
131 " It must be taking enormous energy to do her Janet-did-it-again shtick every day; no wonder she was so worn out. "
132 " Rora had heard prayers before, he was well aware that Isus Krist featured in them, he knew the sound well, but knew none by heart. Still, he fell down on his knees, put his hands together, bowed his head— an embodiment of piety— and prayed: Pliva patka preko SaveIsus Krist Nosi pismo navrh glaveIsus Krist U tom pismu pise Ne volim te vise. "
133 " Učili su još pjesama za kasne sate tuluma; sve se dublje uživljavajući u osjećaj koji Bosanci nazvaju SEVDAH- osjećaj ugodnog bola u duši, kad si pomiren sa svojim nesretnim životom, što ti omogućuje da se potpuno prepustiš uživanju u upravo ovom trenutku. "
― Aleksandar Hemon , Nowhere Man
134 " Writing is nothing if not carrying the hopeless, backbreaking burden of decisions devoid of consequences. "
135 " Uskoro je povjerovao da to što on piše nije poezija, nego nešto drugo, nešto dublje i teže opisivo; nešto što izražava njegov doživljaj života: napeto srce, suze skrivene u očima, oslobađajuće beznađe. Te su pjesme bile blues, utvrdio je Mirza, a u to nema sumnje... "
136 " Hence Joshua giggled to himself: life appeared to him exactly like the joint burning inexorably toward his fingertips—once it’s smoked it cannot be unsmoked. "
137 " No one can desire to be blessed, to act well and to live well, unless at the same time he desires to be, to act, and to live, that is, to actually exist. "
138 " He drunkenly recognized that the lust was part of something bigger, of a craving to pursue pleasure unreasonably, beyond the right and wrong, to go as far as his body took him. "
139 " lovingly. “I enjoy being with you” was her preferred mode of expressing her affection. At worst, she kept him around so he could make her feel better when she needed it, a winning combination of a pet and a dildo. "
140 " There are people who just live and there are people who just survive,” Bega had said. “Americans live, we survive. "